No, it wasn’t an employee with a skimmer. There’s an update to the Fuzzy’s Taco Shop breach involving customers’ credit card information. Andrew McMillan reports: KTXS spoke with Detective Gabriel Thompson with the APD Fraud Division Thursday, and he revealed more details about the two-month-long data breach that started in July and ended Sept. 1….
Month: September 2016
SC: Hit by ransomware, a school district paid the ransom
Diane Lee reports that Horry County Schools, the third largest school district in South Carolina, was hit with ransomware in February, and paid up: A photo was sent to Horry County Schools in February. It said if you don’t pay 22 bitcoin within “7 days” “it’s impossible to recover your files.” Horry paid the $10,000…
Ca: Appalaches school board & cancer support group hit with Zepto ransomware
CBC reported this earlier this week: The Sûreté du Québec’s major crimes unit is investigating two cases of ransomware attacks. The Appalaches school board in Thetford-Mines and La Rose des Vents, a support group for cancer patients in Sherbrooke, reported the cyberattacks to authorities after they could no longer access their online documents. Both organizations reported that thousands of their files have…
Incident response shouldn’t include threatening the media, Saturday edition
As I commented to someone recently, a security incident involving Appalachian Regional Hospital facilities in Beckley and Summers County struck me as a really serious one because it was impacting patient care. While ARH responded promptly and initiated its emergency operations plan after detecting that its system was infected, it seemed clear that shifting to an…
Montreal police search for suspects tied to Concordia U. data theft
CBC reports: Montreal police are asking for the public’s help in finding two suspects in connection with a security breach and data theft at Concordia University. University officials filed a police report in March after library and technical staff found hardware devices called keyloggers on some of its workstations. Read more on CBC.
OR: Asante Notifies Patients of Inappropriate File Access by Employee
The following is a press release: Asante announced today that it is notifying individuals related to a privacy incident involving certain patient information. On July 13, 2016, Asante determined that an employee had inappropriately accessed certain electronic patient records. Asante immediately began an investigation related to this incident and the specific employee, which was completed on July…